White House to Dissenting U.S. Diplomats: ‘Get With the Program’ or Leave

The White House on Monday warned State Department officials that they should leave their jobs if they did not agree with President Trump’s
agenda, an extraordinary effort to stamp out a wave of internal dissent against Mr. Trump’s temporary ban on entry visas for people from seven
predominantly Muslim countries.

Career officials at the State Department are circulating a so-called dissent cable, which says that Mr. Trump’s executive order closing the
nation’s doors to more than 200 million people to weed out a handful of would-be terrorists would not make the nation safer and might instead deepen
the threat.

Echo chambers are dangerous because they become myopic and insulated. Dissent and opposing viewpoints are essential to making optimal choices.

Some may argue that all presidential administrations stamp out dissent to varying degrees, but what's described above is truly "an extraordinary
effort to stamp out a wave of internal dissent." If you don't find that to be at least a little troubling, I believe you're too biased.

I expect Trump supporters to applaud this decision, and I think that's downright scary.

I mean what would you do if they all refused to comply by the orders given to them from the very top. Someone has to be held accountable somewhere.
For me it makes perfect sense, if you don't want to perform your job and follow the orders and guidance given to you by the white house then its time
for you to leave or get kicked out.

It's not the fact people are complaining about the job but outright refusal to comply.

If trump was going above and beyond that scope as in being abusively threatening then yes that would be wrong.

Oh, get a grip. Obama pretty much said the same thing to Republicans when he took office and that was just fine. I know you lot are not use to a
President who actually has a pair, but try to not to let the butthurt get you down.
Follow the rules and do your job. If they can't do that, go find another one..

Oh, get a grip. Obama pretty much said the same thing to Republicans when he took office and that was just fine. I know you lot are not use to a
President who actually has a pair, but try to not to let the butthurt get you down.
Follow the rules and do your job. If they can't do that, go find another one..

But Obama wasn't NUTS! "Butthurt" why the sodomy reference. Sorry, I do not partake, however should you or anyone else get into that action,
its your affair and I support your right.

a reply to: Profusion
I think a distinction needs to be made on this issue.
It is probably the duty of these diplomats to express their views on policy matters within the department. They are there to give advice.
But when they make it public knowledge that they are expressing dissenting views, that's when they're making war on their own government.
Writing dissenting memo = doing their job.
Telling the world they are writing a dissenting memo= dereliction of duty.

P.S.I think he could probably get them on "leaking government information", because policy debates within governments, and especially foreign policy
debates, really need to be private.

If they're truly concerned about the Trump administration becoming an echo chamber, if they're concerned about the detrimental affects this will have
on the nation, then it seems to me that their first priority would be to avoid doing things that disqualify them from fulfilling an advisory role.
And that would be true of more than just the diplomatic career corps.

For those of you who don't know, sandbagging policy implementation, work slow downs, public rabble rousing and the like, will generally disqualify the
perpetrator from a seat at the table, and rightfully so.

Neither Trump, nor any other president, can permit a 5th column within the diplomatic corps.

Trump and CO would like it everyone who didn't agree with their agenda just left! Or, shut up! Unfortunately for them, most of their employees are
civil service,and they can't just fire them.

Yes, I understand firing a civil leech is cumbersome and takes a lot of time. But I suspect transfers aren't that difficult. So transfer those that
won't execute their duties to places like Somalia, Syria and other third world toilets. I think that will get the point across.

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